Lawmakers want to
cap the local sales tax rate to 2.5 percent.
Ultimately, the Senate stripped HB 718 and inserted language that would fix the teacher assistant funding problem — but it also included language about a controversial measure to
cap local sales tax rates, forcing the House's hand in order to get the teacher assistants they wanted.
It would also
cap local sales taxes.
Not exact matches
Lottery winners in 2018 also face a different set of
tax circumstances that may affect their final
tax bill, including a slightly reduced top
tax rate (37 percent, versus 39.6 percent in 2017), and a
capping of paid state and
local income,
sales and property
taxes at $ 10,000 as an itemized deduction.
The House
tax bill just approved would eliminate the deduction for individuals and families of state and
local income and
sales tax, while
capping property
tax deductions at $ 10,000.
«A projected property
tax cap growth at basically zero in 2017, combined with stagnant
sales tax revenues, counties will not be able keep up with the rising costs of state mandated programs provided at the
local level.
· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and
local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current
local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property
tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.
Changes to the federal
tax law
cap personal deductions for state and
local income, property and
sales taxes at $ 10,000.
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And it also ends the full deductibility of state and
local taxes, offering instead a $ 10,000
cap for deducting property,
sales and state income
taxes — a big hit to Long Island and New York, as well as other high -
tax states.
Local governments squeezed by the
tax cap are not likely to make up any revenues from
sales taxes.
The bill would repeal the existing deduction for state and
local income and
sales taxes, and would
cap the deduction for state and
local property
taxes at $ 10,000.
New law: The new law
caps the deduction for all state and
local taxes — income,
sales, real estate, and personal property
taxes — at $ 10,000.
The biggest, especially for taxpayers in high
tax states, is the
sales and
local tax cap at $ 10,000.
In particular, the
cap on deductible mortgage interest, the elimination of the deduction for state and
local interest and
sales taxes, and the change to the capital gains exclusion will impact large segments of the market.
It imposes a new
cap on property
tax deductions (at $ 10,000) and eliminates the widely used deduction for state and
local income [SALT] or
sales taxes altogether.
The so - called SALT deduction, which provides a
tax break on state and
local property
taxes as well as income
taxes or
sales taxes, will be
capped at $ 10,000 — a change that will mostly hurt people who make relatively high incomes in high -
tax states that tend to vote Democratic.
The legislation passed by the Senate included changes to the exemption for gains from the
sale of a primary residence, elimination of the deduction for state and
local income or
sales taxes, a
cap on the deduction for real property
taxes, elimination of the deduction of interest on home equity loans (unless the proceeds of such loans were used to substantially improve the residence), restrictions on the deduction for moving expenses to only active duty military, and restrictions on the deduction for personal casualty losses to Presidentially declared disasters.